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animateadjective having much high-spirited energy and movementan animate dance routine that will really get the blood pumping active, airy, animated, bouncing, brisk, energetic, frisky, gay, jaunty, jazzy, kinetic, lively, mettlesome, peppy, perky, pert, pizzazzy(or pizazzy), racy, snappy, spanking, sparky, spirited, sprightly, springy, vital, vivacious, zippy dapper, dashing, spiffyagog, alert, awake, open-eyed, up, wide-awakeagile, nimble, sprybright, buoyant, cheerful, chipper, chirpy, chirrupy, effervescent, sparkly, upbeateager, enthusiastic, keenfrolicsome, impish, pixieish, playfulboisterous, bubbly, ebullient, exuberant, high-spiritedhigh-strung, nervous, skittish on the go dead, inactive, inanimate, lackadaisical, languid, languishing, languorous, leaden, lifeless, limp, listless, spiritless, vapid indolent, lazy, unambitiousinert, lethargic, sleepy, sluggish, tired, torpid, wearyapathetic, impassive, phlegmatic, stolidboring, dull, irksome, tedious having or showing lifehad a dream about a sandwich that becomes animate alive, breathing, live, living, quick active, animated, dynamic, lively, thriving, vibrant, vigorous, vital, vivaciouscurrent, existent, existing, extant, going, prevailing, survivingresurrected asleep, breathless, cold, dead, deceased, defunct, departed, expired, inanimate, lifeless, nonliving dying, fading, moribundstillbornreposing, restingghostlike, ghostly, ghosty, zombielikeabsent, extinct, fallen, finished, gone, lapsed, lost, nonexistent, perished, terminated, vanished, wiped outbarren, desert animateverbto give life, vigor, or spirit toMr. Clark animates history for his sixth graders by frequently showing up for class dressed like some famous historical figure amp (up), brace, energize, enliven, fillip, fire, ginger (up), invigorate, jazz (up), juice up, jump-start, liven (up), pep (up), quicken, spike, stimulate, vitalize, vivify, zip (up) arouse, awake, awaken, raise, rouse, stir, wake (up)activate, actuate, drive, impel, motivate, motive, move, propelcharge, electrify, galvanizeenkindle, excite, ferment, foment, incite, inflame(also enflame), instigate, kindle, provoke, set off, spark, trigger, turn on, whip (up)abet, boost, buoy, cheer, embolden, fortify, hearten, infuse, inspire, lift, rally, steel, strengthenreactivate, reanimate, reawake, reawaken, recharge, recreate, reenergize, refresh, refreshen, regenerate, reinvigorate, rejuvenate, rekindle, renew, restimulate, resurrect, resuscitate, revitalize, revive damp, dampen, deaden, dull, kill burn out, debilitate, do in, drain, enervate, enfeeble, exhaust, fag, fatigue, harass, kayo, knock out, sap, tucker (out), undermine, wash out, weaken, wear, wear out, wearycheck, curb, inhibit, jade, quell, quench, repress, restrain, slow, still, stunt, suppressdaunt, demoralize, discourage, dishearten, dispirit v.quicken, animate, enliven, vivify mean to make alive or lively.quicken stresses a sudden renewal of life or activity especially in something inert.the arrival of spring quickens the earth animate emphasizes the imparting of motion or vitality to what is or might be mechanical or artificial.happiness animated his conversation enliven suggests a stimulus that arouses from dullness or torpidity.enlivened her lectures with humorous anecdotes vivify implies a freshening or energizing through renewal of vitality.new blood needed to vivify the dying club in the 14th century |